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Hot of the Presses – 2010 Census Data

Remember just a year ago how the headlines were full of stories about the 2010 US Census? Well, the Census data collected all last year is now being released – slowly, as it is organized – and we’ve received the first pieces of it.

By Federal law, the US Census Bureau is required to release basic population data by April 1st of the year following the decennial count. This is so that States can begin the redistricting process, realigning the voting district lines for the House of Representatives so that the total number of representatives reflects the population changes in each area of each state.

Wisconsin’s population figures were released this week, and if you select Wisconsin on the map, you will see that the north central counties (other than Vilas) decreased in population. Oneida County’s population decreased by 2%.

The following table shows the population change for individual towns in Oneida County (towns in italics are those that lost population in the last ten years):

City/Town

2010 Population

2000 Population

Change

% Change

Cassian

985

962

23

2%

Crescent

2033

2071

-38

-2%

Enterprise

315

274

41

15%

Hazelhurst

1273

1267

6

0%

Lake Tomahawk

1043

1160

-117

-10%

Little Rice

306

314

-8

-3%

Lynne

141

210

-69

-33%

Minocqua

4385

4859

-474

-10%

Monico

309

364

-55

-15%

Newbold

2719

2710

9

0%

Nokomis

1371

1363

8

1%

Pelican

2764

2902

-138

-5%

Piehl

86

93

-7

-8%

Pine Lake

2740

2720

20

1%

Rhinelander

7798

7735

63

1%

Schoepke

387

352

35

10%

Stella

650

633

17

3%

Sugar Camp

1694

1781

-87

-5%

Three Lakes

2131

2339

-208

-9%

Woodboro

813

685

128

19%

Woodruff

2055

1982

73

4%

Oneida County

35998

36776

-778

-2%

You can browse the data on population, race, housing units and occupancy for yourself at the new American FactFinder. But it is a bit tricky to use, so I have summarized the population, housing and occupancy numbers for Oneida and Vilas County in an Excel file available here.

You will notice that I’ve included the % Vacant Housing Units in the Excel worksheet. In Oneida and Vilas County, nearly 50% of all homes are “vacant.” In the full decennial Census data, there is another category “For seasonal, recreational or occaisonal use” – which is what the vast majority of vacant housing in Oneida and Vilas counties are. That number has not been released for the 2010 data yet, so it is difficult to know yet whether the across-the-board increase in vacant housing units is an increase in seasonal housing, or in vacant homes sitting on the market.

The rest of the 2010 Census data is scheduled to be released in parts over the next two years, with the Demographic Profile due out in May 2011, and the Summary File 1 (the majority of the basic information on demographic, social, economic and housing data) due out between June and August 2011. Watch this space for updates as they come!